Local and General.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 11356, 11 February 1889, Page 2

Local and General.

The c9ttle ahipped by the Taupo from ; Taranaki for Sydney, sold at an average of £10 per head. A boy, aged 15 years, has been arrested in Melbourne for some exceedingly clever' forgeries on the Stook Exohange, Mr Greenwood, surgeon dentist, will visit Marton to-day and Bulls to-morrow, Tuesday. There will be a special meeting of the Committee of the Regatta Association tol night, at the Anohor Hotel, when almembers are requested to attend. Australian wheat, ex warehouse, is quoted at 41s 3d per quarter, and Hew Zealand long berried at 40s 9d, with a weak market. . . At the Dunedin Association lawn tennh tonrnament on Saturday, the ladies' singles 'waßwbn by Miss R. Orbell. The other events were not ooncluded. A store at Waerangahika, Gisborne, owned and oocnpied'by W. Colebrook, was yesterday destroyed by fires There was an insurance of £500 in the South British on the stook, and £200 on the building in the Phoenix, The Home share market is reported active. Colonial Btocks generally are weaker, owing to the failure of the South Australian loan, Consols are quoted at 99, and New Zealand 4 per cent inscribed stook at 103. The Government intend to re-arrange and probably inorease the Nntive Land Court Judges, with a view to relieving the pressure of business, espeoially. at Wanganui and Giaborne. The Maoris are stated to be largely [availing themselves of last session's Act. ' : On Saturday afternoon a criokot match was played on tho Collegiate ground between the Wanganui Club and Collegiate School. The former winning the toss, eleoted to go in to, bat. first, and were not disposed of until they had made n grand total 115. J: Marshall, J, Watt, and Salmon made 42, 23, and 17 respectively for the town team. The school then went to the wiokets, but did not have time to play their innings oat, six wickets however, falling for 70 runs, Messrs Empson, Grace, and Shields baing top scorers with 21, 25, and 11 respectively. The game was declared a draw. We hear that on the same day thft Copeland, the Bculler, was chasod by a shark, a son of Mr Field (Aramoho), who who waa bathing in Wellington harbour with some companions, had to swim for his life, followed by one of those monsters of the deep: Apropos of sharks, a wellknown loo*l business man was bathing the other day at the Heads, when he snddenly saw what he thought was a shark's fin. The gentleman, though not a light-weight, made a grand record for the shore, which be reached only to find that the object of his scare was— a harmless porpoise. ; At the Polioe . Court on Saturday, Peter MoAlinden, licensee of the Wanganui Hotel, waß charged with having received for drink, during the month of January, other than current ooiu of the reilm, cheques or orders— to wit, tobacco, from one Samuel Livinstone Fraser. Ho pleaded guilty. Sergeant Anderson, while not pressing for the full penalty, oslled atten • tien to the faot that the accused had a conviction against him within, the last si x months, and the police could therefore apply for R forfeiture of the license, bat he did not want to press for the full penalty. The Bench imposed a fine of £5 and costs .13s. and ordered that the lioense be ..endorsed. ■ • . "*' The dancing contest between ' Messrs Mol/ennan and MoK»y took place on Saturday night, at.thejForesters'Hall, Marton, before a good attendance of the public. The m*tch was for £20 aside and the championship of the North Island, and was watched with keen interest by those present. The judges were Messrs Cameron, Dick, and Cbessum, who appeared to have but little difficulty in deciding in favour of MoKay in eaoh of the events, which were^ — Highland Reel, Highland Fling, Reel O'Tullooh, Shauntreaus, Sailor's Hornpipe, Irish Jig, and Sword Dance* For his Highland Fling, McKay got a vooiferous encore, to which he responded. MoKay has now been pitted against McLennan some four different times this year, and beat him at Wellington, Wanganui, and Napier meetings. On Saturday evening, aa the Salvation Army were parading the street near the town Bridge, their Band caused a Chinaman's horse to take fright and gallop up the Avenue, The auimal was attached to a vegetable nart, and appearod to know the town well, for he kept the middle of the roadway, cleverly stearing cloar of the fountain, and was eventually stopped near Messrs Nlcholla and Boundy's. If the Army are not more thoughtful, and do not stop their singing (?) and band playing when they see a restive hnrse, they ane likely to be had up as a publio nnisance again, A runaway horse on a Siturday night, when .so many "People are about, is a very great danger to life, and those who are in charge of the army ought to see that every care is taken to obviate this kind of thin

Tho totsl.reserve in|the Bank of England at the end of last week ■ was £15,686,000, an increase of £140,000 on the previous weeks ■ > At the trial of the Maxim gnn. whioh waa on view at the Melbourne Exhibition, some extraordinary shooting waß made, and the test was eminently successful. . • Mr.,T. F, Dcu,mmond moves into his rebuilt premises in the Avenue to-day, whore he will doubtlesß receive a fair share of pnblic patronaget ' ' ' In reply to a deputation of the Palmerston Borough Council, Mr Maxwell, Bailway Commissioner, stated that there was ao intention of removing the Eastown workshops to jPalmerston. On the arrival of the Doric at Hobart, a passenger named Johnson was arrested on suspicion of being implicated in a large jewel robbery in London. A large quantity of jewellery was found in his baggage. According to a London telegram, a sensation has been caused at Nice by the elopement of Dr Sellon, of London, with Mian Wilcox, an American heiress. The runaways were oaptuted, and Dr Sollon will be prosecuted for abduotion. Serious noting has occurred in several of the manufacturing districts of Belgium, 'find extensive strikes are announced. During a confliot between the police and the rioters, two of the formoriwere killed, A London telegram states that tho operations of financiers in "bearing" the South Australian loan are believed to have ruined the prospects of a bill being passed to enable trustees to invest funds under their control in colonial stock. We are requested to call attention to an error in the date of Messrs Barne and Higgie'a stock sale at Turakina, which appeared in Saturday night's Herald, The date there stated was Saturday, 16th Feb., whereas it should have been Friday, the 15th— see advertisement in our present issue. We heor that the City Rifles have challenged the Wanganui Rifles to a cricket match, which will probably be played this weeki There ought to be, from what we hear of the proposed teams, a good variety of cricketing ability. Bishop Clifford, of Clifton, England, is to be amongst the next batch of Cardinal?. He is of very ancient family and closely i related to the Catholic aristocracy, and would fill the plaoe that Cardinal Howard has Jost through his recent attack of insauity. Yesterday afternoon a b!x roomed hoiiEe at Kaitoke, belonging to Mr John Garner, waa burned to tho ground. It is not known how the fire originated, as all the family were away visiting at Fordell. The loss is estimated at £250, which is not covered by insurance. Special railway arrangements are advertised elsewhero to suit persons desirous of attending the Bam Fair at Bulls to-mor-row, and Messrs F. Xi Jackson and Co.'a Ram Fair in Wanganui on Wednesday and Thursday. We publish elsewhere addresses from Messrs Hatrick, Thatcher, and J. L, Stevenson, candidates for the Harbsur Board, to the electors, in which they all pledge themselves to do the best in sheir power to promote the interests of our port; . • . On Saturday afternoon a young man named .Charlie Patterson, of No 3 Line, mot with an accident whilst trying to mount a horse. Tho horse started off and threw him before he was seated, and ihen kioked him on the arm, breaking it rather badly. Dr Connolly attended him and set the.broken limb. A hint to the management of the Heads Railway. The , passengers by the 5.30 p.m. train from the Heads on Sunday were nearly choked by the dense volumes of smoke from the engine, and one lady had her dress Bet on fire by a spark. Could not a re-currerioe of this be obviated by the chimney being made higher and a spark catcher attaohed ? Mr Titter, who resides in' the Avenue, met with s rather severe accident on Satnrday. lie was at work in the country when a portion of a building fell down and struck him en the arm, splitting the bone and incapacitating him so as to prevent him from working for some time to come. In reference to a communication from Canada suggesting the advisability of holding a conference regarding the Pacific oable at Ottawa, the Queensland Government have consulted other colonies and ascertained that they all agreed that it is preferable that the conference should be held in Australia, .Canada will prob tbly be invited to send a delegate. ' It is not generally known that when a Maori war oanoe is properly maaned, there 18 one, the chief, or hiriwha mera, who gives the time for the strokes of the paddlei and enopurages, generally, the crew. ' In order to promote a display of the real eld Maori custom, Mr Drew has kindly offered a silver medal for the best lea'er, or hiriwha mera, in the Maori war canoe race at the forthcoming regatta > A subscription list, printed in Maori, haa been circulated among the natives, who arc responding very, creditably and giving their quota. At Palroeraton on Friday, there waa a large attendance at the Rain Fair held by MessraF. B. Jackson and Co. and Stevens and Gorton, and the fair proved very sue . cessful. Over 400 rams were yarded, and brisk competition was experienced for Lincolns, but Romney and Shropshire Downs were dull of.salj, The average prices for Linoolns were from 3J to 4J guineas, and the highest price 8J -guineas for Tanner's of Hapior. Cobb'a Romney 's, a very fine lot, averaged 3J guineas, The members of St. Mary's congregation are making great preparations for a soiree and tea which is)to be held in the Drill Hall on Wednesday, the 27th instant. As usual, all the members of , the congregation are working well together, their chief aim being to^make the event a Buccesa proceeds are to go towards defraying the expense lately inenrred, in making alterations to the parish schools. Tickets have been issued, and are going off well, the price' of admission (two shillings)*, being within reach of all; . Another Labor Fire and one which it will take the 'combined efforts of all th 9 opposition bootmakers to quench, 'is now raging.it R, Hannah and Co. 'a. Thoy aro firing their cheap boots antf' shoes all over the town and district, and' the publio are so delighted at the cheapness, the nality, and' the, durability of thorn that their unanimous opinion is they aro the best value procurable in the North Island, and hope that Hannah and Co.'s fire will not be " snuffed out " yet awhile:- You should see their bluchers for 5a 6d, their men's shooters for 4s 6d, their copper toss for 2s lid, 3s lid, and 4s lid, their mon's watertights for 10s 6d, their ladies' kid E.S. for 6a 6d, their ladies' prunella E.S. for 5s lld,° their inea's light "Sunday-go-to-meeting" Balmorals for 12i 6d; their gents' light grain Balmorals tor 10a 6d — why, they could not be bought for double tho price elsewhere, " not'even at auction," R. Hannah and Co., \ Victor iaj Avenue, Wanganui. — Advt,' The immense suocess that has marked the efforts of S. Niohol to ease the burden of the. working man, and cause the honest smile of comforf to mantle round tho health bronzed oheek, to shed luntro on tho house, and mako each matron, maid, and blooming obild hail with delight his endeavour to oppose tiie high prisu9 formerly ohargud for Großories, Ironmongery, Crockery, &c, &c. ia to him sufficient test of public apuroba> tion. That he has beon successful in his endeavour is instanced by his necessary second additions to premises, to enable him to keep a still larger and more varied stook to meet the demands of his customers. His crowning efforts to ploase will be made during this month, when the whole of his truly cheap and full assorted Stock of Grooeries, Ironmongery, Crockery, Toys and Fanpy Goods will be olfureii to the public at prices that will ensure a crowded, shop and big sales,; S. Niohol, cornet Plymouth and' Harrison-streets. ' 1J.8,— My Indian and Ceylon Teas onpa used always used; — Advt 1 "noCGH ON RATS." ' ' Clears out rata, mice, roaches, flies, ants, bed-bugs, beetles, Insects, jack-rabbits, sparrows, skunks, "gophers. At chemists and druggists,